Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched Friday in the capital, Sanaa, in support of Shiite rebels who captured the city last year. The demonstrators denounced alleged "foreign conspiracies" — a reference to international backing for Yemen's embattled president, who managed to escape house arrest at the hands of the rebels earlier this month.

Two suicide bombers spearheaded attacks in Yemen on Thursday that left nearly 70 people dead, including 19 soldiers, as factional violence continued to batter the weakened government.
The deadliest of the two attacks targeted a gathering of Shiite...

Among the 25 or so awards to be handed out at Sunday's Oscars will be the prize for documentary short. One of the less recognized categories at the annual ceremony, the doc short field this year contains a certain newsworthiness because of the inclusion...

"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life," directed by Malcolm Clarke, won the Oscar for documentary short on Sunday.
The documentary follows Alice Herz-Sommer, the pianist and oldest known Holocaust survivor who was 109 years old at the time of...

This year's Academy Award documentary short subject nominees prove more substantial than their animation and live-action counterparts. Of the three Oscar shorts categories, the docs — a supersized collection of works broken down here into two...

The U.S. embassy in Armenia joined those in at least six other nations on Wednesday in warning of possible anti-American protests following the attack on the consulate in Libya that killed an ambassador and three other officials.
While the embassy, located in Yerevan, acknowledged it had no “specific information” that the protests would affect events locally, it cautioned U.S. citizens there to remain “particularly vigilant.”
“Given the uncertainty and volatility of the...

Protests that began in January to unseat longtime president President Ali Abdullah Saleh were expected to continue Friday as Saleh remained resistant to a deal brokered by gulf leaders that would allow him to step down with immunity. Ibrahim Sharqieh,...

In Thursday's Pictures in the News: Yemeni protesters storm the U.S. Embassy during a protest against a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad in Sana, Yemen (more photos); Egyptian protester throws a stone at riot police during a protest near the U.S.

Hundreds of Yemeni protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sana and set it ablaze on Thursday, another eruption of violence in a series of protests sweeping the Middle East and elsewhere over an online video mocking the Islamic prophet. Three of the protesters

Unrest continued to spread across Yemen on Friday as government supporters, angered by an eighth day of demonstrations demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down, invaded the opposition rallies and setting off riots in several cities. Three people h